“I got with Beto and I said, ‘You know what I have an idea’,” Caballero toldSuper Tejano 102.1 radio hostBonnie Hernandez. “I want you to write a song for me. You don’t need me to tell you Jimmy’s story, you’ve been working with Jimmy since before I was born…You know what to write. Don’t ask me, just write. He calls me the next day, ‘Are you ready to listen to it?’, I said ‘Ya?’ He sent it to me, I was blown away.”

“We just all collaborated and tried to do the best we could to try and make it, like a Jimmy Gonzalez song,” said Salinas, “He taught us, the younger generation, the younger crowd that still wants to keep going with the old school Tejano tradition. That’s our culture.”

The collaboration also features amazing musicians, including Caballero’s father Fankie Caballeroon accordion. Mazz membersJay Alaniz on guitar and bass andCris Perales on keyboards, who also arranged the amazing song.

Gonzalez was a pioneer, a legend and multiple Grammy award winner. He co-founded Grupo Mazz in 1978 and went on to achieve international acclaim as one of the most successful Tejano groups ever.

“El Mundo Va Extrañarte” is available now at most digital music platforms.